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When Life Changes the Game

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Author: Wes Bruns

A Story of Survival, Second Chances, and the Power of Perseverance.

By Wes Bruns

When Life Changes the Game

When Life Changes the Game is Wes Bruns's story of survival, second chances, and the power of perseverance. Six years after losing his father, Wes lost his mother, stepfather, and two older brothers in a single night, and spent the next five days comatose with a flatline brain scan before he nearly didn't survive it himself. This book is what came after: three decades spent coaching other people through their hardest moments before he was ready to write about his own.

"Life can break the strongest of people, but Wes Bruns refuses to break."
- Andrew Craig, President, Scott County Catholic School

Published by Streamline Books, When Life Changes the Game released August 20, 2026, launching with a signing at NewBo City Market in Cedar Rapids. If Wes’s story is one you or someone you love needs right now, it’s ready for you today.

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Inside the Book

What This Book Explores

Life Struggles

Wes lost his father as a high school senior, six years before the accident that took his mother, stepfather, and two older brothers. This book also covers the loss of Wes and Holly’s first set of twins, and the many challenges they faced with their son, Eli, and his diagnosis of cerebral palsy.

Coaching Through the Wreckage

For 34 years, Wes has coached basketball, cross country, and track in Cedar Rapids, guiding other people through their hardest moments on the field. This book is about what that same steadiness looked like turned toward himself, in the years when he had no one left to coach him through his own.

A Playbook, Not a Eulogy

The book doesn't end with the accident. It's about the choices Wes made afterward, in coaching, in raising four children, and in rebuilding a family, and what he's learned about getting through a night you don't think you'll survive.

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